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Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.589 = 12.768.1617

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.589 = 12.768.1617
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery purchase
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution donation
Date of Acquisition for the Intitution between 1916 and 1916
Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) Wilbour, Charles Edwin
Certainty: high

Object

Object Type ostracon
Color pottery, dark brown
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation The lower left part is lost toray.
Mounting (non [ostracon])

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The endings of the last lines are lost.
Script, Primary Middle Demotic
Language, Primary Ptolemaic Demotic
Comments on Text Layout Medium line pitch. The right-aligned text covers nearly the entire (preserved) surface of the potsherd, with a broad right margin.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 7 0
Quantity of Columns 1 0
Line Lenght (in mm) 55 0
Column Height (in mm) 60 0
Height of Line / Letter
Line Distance 55 x 60+y 0

 

Text Content

Modern Title list of persons connected with deliveries or income
Ancient Archives administrative archive of unclear context
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary | account
Summary of Content List of names accompanied with an anount of money, presumably connected with payment.
Location of Composition Elephantine Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Teos, (son) of Espmetis: 1 kite.
2Teos, (son) of Teos: [///].
3Pasenis, (son) of Espmetis: 1 kite.
4Pames ..?..: 1 kite(?).
5Payris, son of ..?.. [///].
6Onnophris ..?.. [///].
7[///]
16.580.589_BROO0331_S1
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16.580.589_BROO0332_S1
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16.580.589_BROO0333_S1
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Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
8500 man Onnophris (Brookl 1617) Wn-nfr (Brookl 1617) pre-Coptic Egyptian

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Ptolemaic Dynasty (early) -332 BCE -222 BCE Dating by content. Dating by prosopography.;

 

Pictures

16.580.589_BROO0331_S1
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16.580.589_BROO0332_S1
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16.580.589_BROO0333_S1
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Literature

 

DatasetID 307443
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 89039
Author Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 307443 (= Ostr. New York, Brooklyn Museum 16.580.589 = 12.768.1617), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Jan Moje; Emil Joubert (bibliography); Julia Puglisi (help with metadata).